Vile Blue Shades / John Thursday California Adventure

Wantage Usa

From deep in the heart of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young's failed state of "Deseret" come the vile brothers and sister of VILE BLUE SHADES. Sort of like a loaded, swaggering outsider dance group, or maybe more accurately a 12-member collective with two drummers, two or three other percussionists, a keyboardist, 3 or 4 guitarists, a bassist, a dancer and a bespectacled, hulking, three-quarters talking, one-quarter singing front person. Utah's Mormon, mountain isolation occasionally kicks out some of the wildest underground stuff going and Vile Blue Shades bring their unique type of bizarre, compelling music to a gape-jawed West. Reference points abound: VBS are a little bit Gibby Haynes, part James Chance, part Andy Gill, part lots of things, but as far as new bands go they are an unusual, visceral, sleazy spectacle. First pressing of 250 copies.

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